Guillermo Franco has added to West Ham United's injury woes.

The Independent says Franco to a freak training ground injury that leaves him with no fit senior strikers for Saturday's Premier League relegation game with Portsmouth.

His squad is stretched to breaking point now and Zola will surely have to start with Frank Nouble, the 18-year-old signing from Chelsea who is still eligible to play for West Ham's under-18s in the FA Youth Cup. Nouble has played only five times for the Hammers since he arrived in the summer and he has never started a game for the club, let alone led the line alone.